BOSS Mick McCarthy says it might take a bit of Mike Bassett kidology to break his team’s Molineux hoodoo.

The fictional England manager was never the best at adding up – and the numbers certainly don’t add up for Wolves, who have lost five out of their last six at home.

“There is no better time to have a performance and a result,” he said.

“They all know the importance of it. I get a little bit miffed at times. It’s as if I have to bring the team in on a Friday morning and say ‘right lads, it’s West Brom we’re playing – this is the big game’.

“That’s Mike Bassett management isn’t it? ‘We’ll be playing 4-5-2’.

“Come on, when I was a player and people started that stuff with me I was going ‘do me a favour’.

“You start imparting information as a coach you think they want to hear and they’re sat there going ‘you numpty, you complete numpty.’

“From that answer you can take it I haven’t done that with them.”

McCarthy says Wolves head into the game in a positive frame of mind after the win at QPR.

“I said that last week after the Liverpool game. That’s all we can do, stick together. We’ve managed to do that for the last five years,’’ McCarthy added.

“I seem to remember we were top of the Championship and having discussions like this where opinion was polarised. I’m either good, bad or indifferent.

“Nothing changes with the place. Just keeping that focus on getting enough points to stay in the League and stick together. If we do, we will be fine.

“We are not fighting the world this week, strangely enough. Last week it was like we were in the trenches fighting everybody and this week it has been quite calm and benign.

“The good part about the club is that there is a great solidarity here which has been proven.

“It is solid here, solid inside the place. That is the nature of football, isn’t it? It divides opinion all around the place.”